Question

The three items listed above are called the Reconstruction Amendments. What was the main purpose of these three amendments?

A. to free and grant basic rights to slaves

B. to punish the southern states for seceding

C. to admit three more states into the Union

D. to rebuild cities that the war had destroyed


On Study Island the answer is A. to free and grant basic rights to slaves

Answer 1

These amendments were intended to guarantee freedom to former slaves and to establish and prevent discrimination in certain civil rights to former slaves and all citizens of the United States.

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